Chinese privet or wax-tree, Ligustrum lucidum. Native to China, drawn from a plant sent by Reginald Whitley, Peter Brames and Thomas Milne of Fulham Nursery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1825.

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